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The Original Universe #1 As everything settled... A New Zine Emerged! Number 1 Table of Contents To remain on the mailing list you have to contribute The Usual at least once every 2 issues. Editor’s Corner ………………………….. 3 Failure to do so gets you bumped from mailings. Review / Commentary: 52 …………….... 5 You’ll be reminded if you’re close to that point. Review: Sinestro Corps …………………. 6 Comic Comments ................................... 7 Rights: all articles, art and letters are © to you. Movie Views ……………………………. 9 In the case of characters and concepts belonging Leaping Letters ………………………… 12 to others, rights revert to them and their copyrights should be mentioned. The Original Universe is published 6 times a year on a bi-monthly schedule. Sample issues are Contact: My e-mail for this zine is available for $3 Canadian, about the same cost as [email protected] many comics. You can also subscribe at a cost of $12 per year. My Snail-Mail address is The zine is also available free for The Usual. The Jeff Boman Usual consists of several options: 6900 Cote St-Luc Road #708 Montreal, QC H4V 2Y9 i) LOC (Letter of Comment): This is CANADA the most common method, and recommended even if you use the Next Deadline: September 12. other methods as well. This is simply a letter to the editor giving feedback About the cover: on the issue itself, maybe feedback to other contributors as well. This letter With some Photoshop tricks, this original image can be sent in e-mail. came from the Infinite Crisis mini-series. It’s copyright 2006 by DC Comics. There are two content rules: a) try to be interesting. B) don’t start a fight with another or several other members. I simply won’t publish those. ii) Cover art: I always appreciate this. Keep in mind not to use copyrighted characters without proper attribution, and keep art to PG-13 at most. iii) Interior art: “fillos” are a longtime tradition for zines: small illustrations to break up sections of text. iv) Articles: if you write something to share with fellow readers, I’ll print it. Please keep article submissions clean. v) Zine trades: If you produce a zine, I’ll be glad to exchange a copy of this one for yours. Editor’s Corner Welcome to this first issue of The Original Universe. Some of you I know from my 16+ years in Comicopia, some of you we are all “meeting” for the first time. To all of you, I saw “Welcome!”. This may be outside of what you’re used to; I’m used to being a contributor to other zines, but this is my first time behind the chair for editor and publisher. Please bear with me if I make some mistakes as we go. Some of the folks reading this already know me, so some of this will be familiar to them – probably most of this in fact. I’ll just make sure that, good or bad, all my readers will be up to speed. First, some history: I’m the guy who in 1990 came up with the idea and name for Comicopia, an APA (Amateur Press Association) devoted to comicbooks. A friend offered to run the legwork on it. Two others came after him on that, and I went along with that. It’s about time for me to “get my hands dirty”, so to speak. :) I started using a word processor on an Atari ST computer, then used a DTP program on it. When I got a PC, I began that route all over, only Publisher was my DTP program and save for a brief sojourn with WordPerfect, Word became my standard word processor. Currently I’m using Open Office Writer for that purpose. [I’m back on Word as I write this. Writer was giving me formatting headaches.] My DTP program is also changed. This will either be in Pagemaker (which I’m accustomed to) or Indesign if I come to grips with it. That covers the mechanical stuff, but what of me personally? Outside of the above-mentioned APA, I write for tabletop roleplaying games (I currently have 6 published credits, 2 to come this year), fiction which I’ll include in this zine from time to time (here I have a small pile of rejection slips so far), screenplays (I’m an animation grad from university, specialized in scripts. I won Script Frenzy in June), and I’m also a computer software geek. I taught myself HTML, ended up the backup teacher in an Adult Ed program on Information Technology. On top of comics I’m a fan of professional wrestling (more on that in a bit), science fiction (I was on my local SF convention committee for 6 years), above-mentioned RPGs, SF TV... I’m an all-around nerd for these things and proud of it! One thing you’ll often hear me gush about here: I’m an uncle. My nephew Adam Benjamin Dyer is 11, starting junior high school in the fall (wow). My twin nieces (same mom) Amanda Kathleen and Rebecca Lianne are 8. They are all taking after their dad in terms of height. Currently I’m wearing sandals that Adam has outgrown, and I have a pair of boots from him for the winter that he has as well. Yes, my 11-year old nephew has outgrown the foot size of his 40-year old uncle. I wear hand-me-downs from many of my family. These I call more realistically hand-me-ups though. I said I was a fan of wrestling, and there’s a big story about it in the news at the moment. I’ll speak out on it: the tragedy in the home of Chris Benoit. Chris gave last minute warning to WWE that he wouldn’t be at their Vengeance Pay-per-View because of a “family emergency”. By the morning, he, his wife Nancy and son Daniel were found dead. 3 That night WWE had a tribute show for him – but by the Tuesday afterwards more grisly details were revealed: it was a double murder-suicide. Chris had strangled his wife and son over that weekend, then hung himself in his weight room. He had steroids and other drugs in his possession. A full toxicology report hasn’t been done yet, but something set him off. The drugs (whatever he took) were likely the cause; he loved his son dearly, and wouldn’t have done this awful thing otherwise. This really has me conflicted. On one hand he was an amazing ring performer. Many of the best matches of the past 10+ years had him involved. He was a tremendous worker, and even when he lost a match fans would cheer him. On the other hand: in no way can I forgive or excuse these actions. Regardless of how great he was in the ring he was a monster in the end. Like many suggest, I want to wait for the final results to make a full decision. It’s a shame how a wrestling future legend destroyed his legacy, however. Regardless of any spin, these awful actions will be what he’s remembered for from now on. Changing to something pleasant: I’m the sole TRUE Montreal winner of Script Frenzy. I produced a 20 000 word screenplay in the 30 days of June. I’ve been a member of the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), Montreal chapter since 2003. For that I write the 50 thousand word first draft of a novel in the 30 days of November. I say I’m a TRUE Montreal winner because one other winner listed was a winner – but he stated his home was in Brussels, Belgium. How he chose Montreal as his region I don’t understand. I’m counting the days and minutes until August 4th. The reason is that a massive high school reunion will be held at my old school in the Laurentians (the country, if you don’t know Québec well). Grads from 1981 through 1984 will be there. I graduated in 84, but I have friends going back to 82. In 1999 I made a New Year’s Resolution to track down my old schoolmates. Unlike most resolutions, I’ve actually been keeping it. :) I’ve managed to reconnect with 8 people so far; this reunion from the sound of it will grow my total of people I re-meet greatly. It’s been 23 years since then for me. For some it will be 26. Incredible how many years have passed! Finally I should explain why I’m using the spelling ‘comicbook’: In 2006 I attended the Paradise City Comic-Con in Toronto. Stan Lee was originally supposed to be the Guest of Honor but had to cancel for other commitments. He appeared on a video piece instead. On it, he asked that we always spell Spider-Man as two words, but comicbook as 1. He explained that ‘comic book’ implied it was only humorous, not to be taken seriously. The 1-word term could help to change that – so I’m attempting to. 4 Series Thoughts: 52 The spoilers flag is up here. Avoid this if you want to be suprised. Early in May of 2007, 52 wrapped up. As an overall story, different parts of it held together. Well, the World War III titles didn’t really in my opinion. Outside of really being another cash grab, I didn’t see that the 4 titles really added anything to the overall story. The reasons initially given (to fill in changes in characters the maxi-series had no room for) were pretty much things that happened in a brief few panels – this they could fit here and there in 52.
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